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So in essence you end up with the #channels being filtered by third parties? How would those third parties get noticed. Would Twitter offer them some kind of sub domain or special alias?

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We would have Twitter the API, and Twitter the umbrella network. You might want to promote a sub group into the larger network, or you may not - similar to reddit in a way.

I imagine invite only groups, time-limited groups for concerts/conferences/sporting events, location-locked groups that you dynamically join and leave as you move around.

I may just be describing iMessage or Slack at this point.

I would definitely like the idea of being able to add a private channel whenever I wanted one. Something like #{myusername}-private-{whatever} and then I could approve or add users to the channel

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